Study finds 99% correlation between US spending on Space Exploration and Suicides by Suffocation

[KurtNYC]

And, how is Nicholas Cage making people drown themselves?! The same researchers found a 66% correlation between the number of films Nicholas Cage appears in yearly and the number of drowning in swimming pools:


http://tylervigen.com/

Seriously: Correlation is not causation. Just because two number rise and fall together does not mean there is any causal relationship at all between them. But the newspaper editors of America just go right on claiming there is: Sex with more than 20 women reduces risk of prostate cancer, according to study

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5731468


You can create your own spurious correlation here (please feel free to share your discoveries!):

http://tylervigen.com/discover

[NYC_SKP]

1. I love this, I hope Mike Bloomberg and Sharon Watts don't find out about this.

Because then we'll be outlawing sippy straws because of all the missed USPS delivery!

[KurtNYC]

2. I just hope Nicholas Cage has the humanity to stop his destructive film appearances!

"National Treasure" almost did it for me.

[liberal N proud]

3. We should stop Nicholas Cage from making any more movies.

That's all there is to it.

[Warpy]

4. You've discovered one of my favorite sites.

One I think is not that spurious is this one:



I think using margarine instead of butter would contribute to the divorce rate. Margarine is horrible stuff, contributing to the deposit of arterial plaque at a far greater clip than butter. It also lacks anything but an oily flavor, unlike wonderful butter.

It would be a case of divorcing such a spouse before the margarine killed one.

[KurtNYC]

6. Have you tried the "make your own" tool ?

Butter is much more satisfying and obviously is the basis of a lasting marriage in Maine as these statistics clearly prove.

[hifiguy]

5. Still the best one:

[KurtNYC]

9. we are creating more pirate habitat, they like it warm, obviously

[KurtNYC]

7. number of films Nicholas Cage appears in predicts the number of female editors on Harvard Law Review

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85% correlation! Maybe it's in Cage's movie deal or he just gets on the phone and tells them:

Cage: Okay I'll do your movie but you have to work your connections and put 5 female editors on the Harvard Law Review or no deal...you got that?

A: Yes Mr Cage. We'll make it happen, again.

[Rex]

8. Apple iPhone sales correlates with Visitors to Disney Worlds Animal Kingdom

[sarisataka]

10. Keep those lemons coming...

[Jim Lane]

11. Thanks, this is both funny and instructive.

So much of our public discourse includes bamboozling people about statistics.

I predict that, over the long term, there would be a significant non-spurious correlation between number of visits to this site and Republican electoral defeats.

[Taitertots]

12. Coffee makes the sun come up in the morning.

All I know is: every time I've seen the sun come up, I just finished making coffee.